Book Diplomacy in the Cultural Cold War : Interdisciplinary Perspectives / edited by Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Giles Scott-Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haddadian-Moghaddam, Esmaeil, editor.

Scott-Smith, Giles, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

New Perspectives on the Cold War ; 13.

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025

New Perspectives on the Cold War ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book History and Cartography.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Broadly speaking, book diplomacy covers the use of books to achieve certain objectives related to the foreign policy interests of a given country, usually involving state-private partnerships of varying degrees. In this volume, scholars from different disciplines examine in detail how books functioned as tools of “soft power” and cultural diplomacy during the cultural Cold War. This study also introduces a 10-point typology to examine the many forms and practices of Cold War book diplomacy and the diversity of objectives and outcomes that they involved. Looking beyond the Cold War, this volume stresses the continuing importance of books as a distinct form of material culture used to convey information around the world. Contributors are: Tahoor Ali, Hanna Blum, Deborah Cohn, Cécile Cottenet, Alexander Erokhin, Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Musa Igrek, Julia Lin Thompson, Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Christos Mais, Hafiz Abid Masood, Mila Milani, Birgitte Beck Pristed, Giles Scott-Smith, Ilaria Sicari, and Steven W. Witt.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Book Diplomacy in the Cultural Cold War and beyond: An Introduction

Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam and Giles Scott-Smith

Part 1 Book Diplomacy and Power in the International System

1 Internationalism Meets the Cold War: Interwar Book Networks as Challenge to State Power

Steven W. Witt

2 Professor Pearson Goes to Washington: Norman Holmes Pearson, U.S. Literature, and the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy

Deborah Cohn

3 Literature as a Weapon? Soviet Book Diplomacy, Soviet, and U.S. Literature in the Cultural Cold War between 1945 and 1964

Alexander Erokhin

Part 2 Publishers and Literary Agents

4 Bringing Books to France: Literary Agents in Cold War Transnational Networks (1940s–1960s)

Cécile Cottenet

5 The Literary Agent as Book Diplomat: Erich Linder’s Agency in the Transnational Socialization of Tamizdat

Ilaria Sicari

6 Serving Two Masters: Cold War Book Diplomacy in 1960s Greece

Christos Mais

Part 3 Translation and the Role of Translators

7 Translation as a Tool of Soft Power: A Study of Franklin Book Programs’ Urdu Books in Pakistan

Hafiz Abid Masood and Tahoor Ali

8 Translating for Children during the Cold War: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in Franco’s Spain and Chairman Mao’s China

Julia Lin Thompson

9 Publishing Translations from Russian in Italy during the Cold War

Mila Milani

Part 4 Censorship, Propaganda and Informal Diplomacy

10 Fighting with Words: The Role of Discourses in the Literary Field during the Cultural Cold War in the GDR

Hanna Blum

11 Bellman Books: Selling a Favorable Image Abroad

Musa Igrek

12 Scientific American in the USSR : The Semi-Diplomatic Spaces of Soviet-American Publishing Relations, 1980–1984

Rósa Magnúsdóttir and Birgitte Beck Pristed

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-72819-8

OCLC:

1525358452

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004728196 DOI